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November 1, 2017January 9, 2018 Working Class History Blog

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We have loads of exciting projects in the pipeline, like a podcast, a WCH website with browsable timelines and maps of radical history, viral videos and even a phone app, but we need your support so please become a patron of us here on patreon!
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July 30, 2014January 9, 2018 Working Class History Blog

Launch statement

Today, 30 July, anniversary of the first recorded strike in North American history, we are launching a new working class history page on Facebook to celebrate our history: people’s history. Continue reading “Launch statement” →

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On this day, 19 September 1793, during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. They were welcomed by the white French property owners, who had signed a secret accommodation with Britain. In exchange for their support, Saint Domingue would become a British colony.
On this day, 19 September 1893, following two decades of struggle, women in Aotearoa/New Zealand won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Māori and working class women had played an important role in the women's suffrage movement, and the right to vote was achieved by all, not just white women or property owners like in some countries.
On this day, 18 September 1974, Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher and revolutionary died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the right-wing regime of general Augusto Pinochet. She was 63.
On this day, 18 September 2016, right-wing British tabloid the Daily Mail preposterously claimed that a terrorist attack in New York's Chelsea district which wounded 29 people, one of the city's most LGBT+ friendly areas, was carried out by a "gay Trump hater". They cited a clearly fake Tumblr page, which was immediately dismissed by the FBI, which also "decried 'all Republicans' as being 'cisgendered privileged white people.'" Even the comments on the Daily Mail website, which are known for being a hotbed of far right and conspiracy-minded views, mostly pointed out that the Tumblr was clearly a "sick joke" or "red herring". It was just one of many homophobic and transphobic articles published by the Mail that year: others included disparaging same-sex marriage, opposing HIV medication, denouncing male athletes as un-"manly" for hugging, attacking transgender children and even announcing their "disgust" at the National Trust for acknowledging the existence of LGBT+ people.
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